Further Reading
The following reading list is meant to act as a bibliography, or “works cited” section, for this resource, but also to allow viewers and readers to orient themselves in their learning about treaties. All sources discussed or mentioned in the talks, interview, and discussions can be found here.
James Daschuk
Asch, Michael, ed. Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in Canada: Essays on Law, Equality, and Respect for Difference. UBC Press, 1998.
Barkwell, Lawrence. Veterans and Families of the 1885 Northwest Resistance. Gabriel Dumont Institute, 2010.
Daschuk, James. Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Indigenous Life. U of Regina Press, 2019 (2nd ed.).
Hildebrandt, Walter. Views from Fort Battleford: Constructed Visions of an Anglo-Canadian West. U of Regina Press, 2008.
Hubbard, Tasha. nîpawistamâsowin. We Will Stand Up. National Film Board, 2019. Documentary film available online.
Needler, G.H. The Battleford Column: Versified Memories of a Queen’s Own Corporal in the Northwest Rebellion 1885. The Provincial Publishing, 1957.
Sluman, Norma. Poundmaker: A Novel of Early Canada. Historical Fiction, 2019.
Starblanket, Gina, and Dallas Hunt. Storying Violence. Unravelling Narratives in the Stanley Trial. ARP Books, 2020.
Veracini, Lorenzo, and Edward Cavanagh, editors. The Routledge Handbook of the History of Settler Colonialism. Routledge, 2017.
Veracini, Lorenzo. The World Turned Inside Out: Settler Colonialism as a Political Idea. Verso, 2021.
Waiser, Bill. In Search of Almighty Voice: Resistance and Reconciliation. Fifth House Books, 2020.
Wolfe, Patrick. Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology: The Politics and Poetics of an Ethnographic Event. Cassell, 1999.
Worster, Donald. Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s. Oxford UP, 2004.
Annie Battiste
“Elders’ Document on Treaty 4 by the Saulteaux, Cree, and Assiniboine Nations.” Office of Specific Claims and Research. Nd. Available online.
“Summary of Elders’ Interviews. Treaty 6.” Office of Specific Claims and Research. Nd. Available online.
Chartrand, Larry. Métis Treaties in Canada: Past Realities and Present Promises. Indigenous Law Centre, University of Saskatchewan, 2020.
Frideres, James. “Treaties in Canada. First Nations Treaties, Métis Scrip, and the Manitoba Act.” Arrows in a Quiver. University of Regina Press, 2019. 115–152.
Gaudry, Adam. “Are the Métis Treaty People? An Examination of the Manitoba Act as a Treaty with the Métis Nation.” Weweni Indigenous Scholars Speaker Series, University of Winnipeg, January 6, 2016. Video available online.
Gunn, Brenda, and Bryn Rieger. “Métis-Crown Relations Through an International Treaty Lens.” Aboriginal policy studies 6.2 (2017). Article available freely online.
MacKenzie Art Gallery. “Duane Linklater: Kâkikê / Forever.” Regina: MacKenzie Art Gallery. Website.
Office of the Treaty Commissioner. “About the Treaties.” Website.
Teillet, Jean. The North-West Is Our Mother : The Story of Louis Riel’s People, the Métis Nation. Patrick Crean Editions, 2019.
Wanuskewin Heritage Park. “Our Story.” Website.
Melanie Brice
Gee Meeyo Pimawtshinawn (It Was A Good Life). Gabriel Dumont Institute / Heritage Saskatchewan, 2019. Available online.
Andersen, Chris. “Métis”: Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood. UBC Press, 2014.
Bakker, Peter. A Language of Our Own. The Genesis of Michif, the Mixed Cree-French Language of the Canadian Métis. Oxford University Press, 1997.
Hinton, Leanne and Meek, Barbra A., “Language Acquisition, Shift, and Revitalization Processes in the USA and Canada,” in Indigenous Language Revitalization in the Americas, Coronel-Molina, Serafín M. and McCarty, Teresa L., eds., 57-75. Routledge, 2016
hooks, bell. Belonging. A Culture of Place. Routledge, 2009.
Johnson, Bonny and Dorion, Leah Marie. sînapân kîskasâkâs: A Guide to Making Contemporary-Style Métis Ribbon Skirts. Gabriel Dumont Institute, 2021.
MacDougall, Brenda. One of the Family: Metis Culture in Nineteenth-Century Northwestern Saskatchewan. UBC Press, 2010.
Teillet, Jean. The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel’s People, the Métis Nation. Patrick Crean Editions, 2019.
Weenie, Angela. “Askiy Kiskinwahamākēwina: Reclaiming Land-based Pedagogies in the Academy,” in Decolonizing and Indigenizing Education in Canada, Cote-Meek, Sheila, and Moeke-Pickering, Taima, eds., 3-18. Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2020.
Emily Grafton and Jérôme Melançon
Alfred, Taiaiake, and Jeff Corntassel. “Being Indigenous: Resurgences against Contemporary Colonialism.” Government and opposition 40.4 (2005). 597–614.
Melançon, Jérôme. “The Land on which We Stand.” Camrose Booster, February 2, 2014, p. 8. Available online.
Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake, and Kiera L. Ladner. This is an Honour Song. ARP Books, 2010.
Tuck, Eve, and K. Wayne Yang. “Decolonization is not a Metaphor.” Decolonization 1.1 (2012). 1-40.
General Resources about Treaties
Cardinal, Harold, and Walter Hildebrand. Treaty Elders of Saskatchewan: Our Dream Is That Our Peoples Will One Day Be Clearly Recognized as Nations. University of Calgary Press, 2000.
Carter, Sarah, Walter Hildebrandt, and Dorothy First Rider. The True Spirit and Original Intent of Treaty 7. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1996.
Joseph, Bob. 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act; Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality. Indigenous Relations Press, 2018.
Krasowski, Sheldon. No Surrender. The Land Remains Indigenous. University of Regina Press, 2019.
Obomsawin, Alanis. Trick or Treaty? National Film Board, 2014.
Price, Richard T. The Spirit of the Alberta Indian Treaties. 3rd ed. University of Alberta Press, 1999.
